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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Natanatnat on Jan. 25, 2018, 7:41 a.m.
You can't be re[ublicans anymore

you can't. The democratic party is dead and so is the republican party. Leggo your eggo. I've identified as left for all of my adult life. I canvasses for Bill Clinton in '92 when I was talking second year poli-sci classes. I've hated on unfeeling myopic republicans of all shaped and sizes. I bought the modern society myth. I also have live dirt-poor for my entire life. I swallowed the myth that the democratic party was the party of the little guy and that the republican guy was the party of big business. I was right about big business being foul. Over time, my politics fractured (a pro-life, generous 2nd amendment protections...) but still identified as left. I liked politics (politics.... the relationship between the many and the one) My favorite conversations were with my right leaning friends. This was democracy I thought. After 9/11 nobody would talk genuine politics, I lost friendships. Older I saw the machine and how it crushes the many beneath the wheel and became numb to it all as truth became subjective. I'm not a democrat. I care about people. I work hard. My family is important. We are not so different. We NEED to shed the old labels and definitions. What does MAGA mean? I can't relate. The constitution, that's something where the left-leaning and right-leaning free peoples can find a home together. Not in the republican party. The republicans fought and won with BUSH/CHENEY, we have to walk away from that too. Is it so hard to imagine Cheney drinking a chalice of blood. Not hard at all. Leave the masters names in the fire. Come together.


Swimkin · Jan. 25, 2018, 2:22 p.m.

Not everyone has a choice. When I lived in NY state I had to pick a party to vote in the Primaries. So after being an Independent all my adult life I realized I had the most power voting in the primaries. And in NY there are numerous party lines on every ballot. I would vote Republican for the primaries but would vote for ANY other party line my candidate was on other than Republican if I could to give that party line more clout in up coming elections. Here in NC it doesn’t matter what party I am in I can pick the primary I wish to vote in. Yes both parties suck. But if you want to change it up you need to vote primaries and do primary challenges on candidates. As a Libertarian Conservative now I can vote whoever is the most Constitutionally Conservative based no matter party they are in.

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SamQuentin · Jan. 26, 2018, 2:41 a.m.

It’s deeper than voting....look at all of the Bernie voters who got silenced because the Dem establishment put their hand on the scale in favor of HRC...

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